ST. LOUIS -- A man who was with Michael Brown when Brown was fatally shot by a Ferguson police officer last year is charged with misdemeanor resisting arrest over a new confrontation with police.
The St. Louis city prosecutor charged 23-year-old Dorian Johnson on Thursday, one day after his arrest with two other people by officers trying to disperse a crowd. Johnson last week filed suit against Ferguson, the officer who shot Brown and the city's former police chief.
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